@Yuno779 Do you really think that Niji and Novelai developed their products on their own and not by using their datasets containing multiple anime artists? In the case of Novelai, the dataset is even illegal, since no artist has agreed to use their artwork. And here you say that the style belongs to no one? Really? At least if you can't credit the thousands of artists that are in the training set, credit your sources as much as you can. Mentioning checkpoints and services you used is good enough. I didn't see any of that when I made the first comment.

@daxivi6026 While I don't entirely disagree with you, we tend to forget that the same argument can almost completely be applied to human artists and art commissioners, as well. Human artists arrive at their style after observing art from many other artists (perhaps even imitating or downright copying them), and there is a long tradition of asking artists to imitate the style of other artists for one reason or another, often for the express purpose of not having to compensate the imitated artist for their work.

Perhaps we should address things like that also if we're going to be so hard on this new tool and its users?